Assertiveness training

Individual, group, or family therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, support groups, anger management, and assertiveness training... 

Other applications assertiveness training, social skills training, preparing children for various frightening or painful medical or surgical procedures... 

Bond, M. (1988). Assertiveness training Part One. Nursing Times 84(9) 61-4. 

Crosley, J. M. (1980). Preventing nurse burnout Assertiveness training can be cost effective. Cost Containment 2. 

Lee, S. and Crockett, M. S. (1994). Effect of assertiveness training on levels of stress and assertiveness experienced by nurses in Taiwan. Issues in Mental Health Nursing 15 419-32. 

Includes mindfulness, distress tolerance (e.g. self-soothing techniques), interpersonal skills (e.g. assertiveness training), and emotional regulation. 

Social and life skills training. The four available studies were of short duration (5 days, 7 weeks, nine weeks, 12 weeks) and showed an improvement in the parameters of interest (eye contact, self-assertion). There was no detailed information on the antipsyehotics administered and, according to the authors, it is also unclem how long the stated behavioral changes lasted. 

The social pressures to abuse drugs or drink call for specific assertive responses in relation to these substances. Foy et al. (1976) developed a technique called refusal training for such instances. The components of a refusal response are ... 

When women do actively adopt an assertive leadership style, they are perceived more negatively than men. A laboratory study measured people s facial reactions to people trained to act as a leader.16 The study demonstrates that both women and men—unconsciously but visibly—react negatively to women in a situation that is aimed at finding a group solution to a problem. People respond especially negatively to women s attempts to be assertive. 

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